Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

During the early communist period of the 1950s, temple fairs in China were both suppressed and secularized. Temples were closed down by the secular...

This book argues for a new anthropology of the moving image, bringing together an important range of essays on time-based media in the contemporary...

An ethnography of the decolonization of Maya-ness. On the Yucatan Peninsula today, undergraduates are inventing a new sense of being Maya by studyi...

An ethnography of the decolonization of Maya-ness. On the Yucatan Peninsula today, undergraduates are inventing a new sense of being Maya by studyi...

This book argues for a new anthropology of the moving image, bringing together an important range of essays on time-based media in the contemporary...

This book advances the practice and theory of design ethnography. It presents a methodologically adventurous and conceptually robust approach to in...

This book examines the question of class formation and social inequality within tribal groups in North-East India.Focussing on the Nagas, it analys...

This volume explores the dialogic relationship between myths and places in the historically, geographically, and culturally diverse context of Indi...

Black magic, occult practices and witchcraft still evoke huge curiosity, interest and amazement in the minds of people. Although witchcraft in Euro...

In the West the Japanese house has reached iconic status in its architecture, decoration and style. Is this neat, carefully constructed version of ...

The very routines of our daily life are to a great extent the expression of our vulnerability and dependence on incredibly wide and complex network...

1992 was a pivotal moment in African American history, with the Rodney King riots providing palpable evidence of racialized police brutality, media...

The Angry Earth explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity, offering insight into the complex relatio...

This book shows how the performance of rituals influences the understanding that Hindu women form of their own selves, their sense of femininity, i...

Cool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain: Uncorking the Champagne Supernova attempts to move away from the melancholia of Cool Britannia and the dis...

Suicide and Agency offers an original and timely challenge to existing ways of understanding suicide. Through the use of rich and detailed case stu...

This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on t...

The entanglements of information and materiality in our media environment, that new information and communication technologies make increasingly mo...

Conceptually, Molefi Kete Asante: A Critical Afrocentric Reader is a reflexive analysis of the editors space in higher education over the past thre...

Title first published in 2003. Shamanism has a contradictory position within the Korean cultural system, leading to the periodical suppression of s...

The new edition of this bestselling textbook, Multicultural Psychology, helps students gain an understanding of how race, ethnicity, and culture sh...

This book, built around the study of the representation of age and identity in 23,000 Latin funerary epitaphs from the Western Mediterranean in the...

Focusing on the creation of the concept of Whiteness, this study links early photographic imagery to the development and exploitation that were com...

Grounded in critical heritage studies and drawing on a Pacific Northwest Coast case study, Maritime Heritage in Crisis explores the causes and cons...